Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 419
After Imperial Physician Hu left, Li Jing looked at the ministers and said, "Mr. Yuan's greatest regret is that he did not see me destroy the Eastern Captives with his own eyes. In order to make up for my regret, I have ordered Cao Wenzhao to go to war against the Eastern Captives today. Although the current battle is a bit difficult for the soldiers, as long as the logistics can keep up, it is not too difficult to take down the Donglu.

Now let me talk about Mr. Xu's regrets. Mr. Xu told me when he was ill a few years ago that he wanted to compile "Chongzhen Dictionary", and recommended Kong Zhenyun as the editor-in-chief.

Kong Zhenyun, you have already received the appointment from years ago, I wonder how you have prepared in the past two months? "

After hearing this, Kong Zhenyun hurried forward and said: "I would like to report to the Duke, the officials have already organized people to collect the calligraphy books of the past dynasties, and began to identify the fallacies in the calligraphy books, but there are two major difficulties now, one is insufficient manpower, The second is lack of financial resources.”

Li Jing nodded lightly, then turned to Shen Zhengdao: "Chen Dahu will release 200 million taels of tax money to Beijing in a few days, and you will transfer 20 taels to Mr. Kong."

Shen Zheng nodded and said: "I will first borrow 20 taels of silver from the Daming Bank and give it to Mr. Kong for use. I will make up the tax money when it arrives in Beijing."

Li Jing nodded slightly.

After hearing this, Kong Zhenyun said hastily, "Thank you, Lord Guo."

Li Jing waved his hand: "Use the 20 taels of silver first, and let me know when you don't have enough. As for the manpower problem, I have already thought about it, but I have been busy and forgot to transfer people."

Speaking of this, Li Jing looked at Kong Zhenyun, and suddenly said: "Do you know people from Fushe? Write a letter to Zhang Pu, Chen Zilong and others, and ask them to bring a group of scholars to Beijing to help you compose characters." Book."

Kong Zhenyun hurriedly said: "The lower officials have nothing to do with the people who restored the society."

Li Jing took a deep look at Kong Zhenyun, waved his hands and said, "I didn't say that you had a relationship with them, so you don't have to worry about it. As long as you can compile the calligraphy and achieve Mr. Xu's wish, you don't need to worry about other things. "

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "If you can't invite people from Fushe, I will ask Chen Dahu to arrange someone to invite them."

Kong Zhenyun was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Although I don't have much contact with the Fushe people, I still have old acquaintances with Zhang Pu, so don't bother the Duke, I will write a letter to Zhang Pu immediately. "

Li Jingjing nodded: "Han Yu once said in the Tang Dynasty that all things can be established without forewarning. I hope you can do a good job in this important event that will benefit future generations."

Kong Zhenyun hurriedly said: "Duke, don't worry, the next official will not disgrace the mission."

Li Jing waved his hand and said: "It's the best, I'm tired, you guys go down and help Xu Ji take care of it."

When everyone heard the words, they hurriedly stood up and said, "I will take my leave."

After speaking, everyone saluted Zhu Youjian and Li Jing, and hurried out of the hall.

Shen Zheng walked two steps, stopped suddenly, looked at Yang Liufeng, Yang Liufeng shook his head lightly when he saw it.

Shen Zheng sighed, turned and left the room.

Outside the door, Yang Liufeng pulled Shen Zheng back and said in a low voice: "Master Shen thinks that the commander-in-chief ordered Cao Wenzhao to act too hastily against the Eastern Captives?"

Shen Zheng nodded, sighed, and said, "Yes, last month it snowed heavily in Guihua Mansion, and most of the grain and grass prepared for the conquest of the Eastern captives were transferred to Guihua. Now the grain and grass in Pingyang Mansion have just started shipping. We are sending troops at this time. Worried about not being able to supply food and grass.”

Yang Liufeng sighed after hearing this and said: "This is not the time for remonstrance. The commander-in-chief feels sorry for Mr.'s death, and he has already lost his position. Let's talk about it after two days when the commander-in-chief calms down."

Shen Zheng shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that Cao Wenzhao will raise his troops immediately after receiving the commander's order. Once he raises his troops, my food and grass will not be able to keep up. It's too late to say anything."

Yang Liufeng nodded, turned his head to look at the room behind him, and suddenly lowered his voice and said, "In my opinion, my lord should immediately send someone to notify Cao Wenzhao and let him know about my lord's difficulties. It is best to let him go to Beijing immediately I want to ask the commander in person for instructions, so that it can be delayed for some time."

Shen Zheng sighed and said, "I'm afraid that Cao Wenzhao won't dare to disobey the general's military order, so he will raise troops immediately."

Yang Liufeng nodded slightly, and after a while suddenly said: "Cao Wenzhao will not raise troops immediately, Xiao Wu said earlier that the general ordered the whole army to wear filial piety, Cao Wenzhao's army has more than [-] people, and it will take several days to prepare filial piety. With this time, it is enough for him to return to Beijing."

Shen Zheng hurriedly said: "Then I will write to Cao Wenzhao immediately."

Shanhaiguan General Military Mansion.

Cao Wenzhao frowned as he looked at the two letters in his hand.

One of these two letters was sent by someone sent by Li Jing, and the other was sent by someone sent by Shen Zheng. The interval between the two letters was less than half an hour, but the contents were completely opposite.

Li Jing's letter told him that Yuan Keli and Xu Guangqi had passed away successively, so that all his troops were ordered to pay tribute to them, and immediately set up troops to attack the Eastern Captives.

However, Shen Zheng's letter said that due to the heavy snowfall in Guihua Mansion, the grain and grass stored by Datong and Xuan Mansion had been transferred to Guihua Mansion, and the grain and grass in Pingyang Mansion had just started shipping.

In addition, Shen Zheng also told Cao Wenzhao that Li Jing was saddened by the death of his mentor, and ordered him to send troops in order to fulfill his mentor's wish, but Li Jing was in a mess at the time, and forgot that the grain and grass he had originally stored had been transferred to naturalization.

Shen Zheng hoped that Cao Wenzhao could suspend the dispatch of troops, and it would be best to go to Beijing and have a face-to-face talk with Li Jing to clarify the current situation, or wait until Li Jing regained consciousness.

After reading these two letters, Cao Wenzhao fell into a dilemma.

Cao Wenzhao knew very well that what Shen Zheng said was right. It is not a child's play to go out with a large army. Once the food and grass cannot be supplied, there will be big troubles. This is not a few thousand people who cannot eat, but tens of thousands of 10,000+ troops.

If there are only a few thousand people, even if there is no food, Cao Wenzhao dares to send troops. Because of the small number of people, Cao Wenzhao can completely feed the enemy with food, and there is no problem in feeding thousands of people in the enemy's territory.

However, it is not so easy to solve the 10,000+ army to eat in the enemy's territory. Before Shengjing was captured, Cao Wenzhao could not disperse the troops to rob food everywhere, so it was not an expedition, but a robbery.

However, Cao Wenzhao didn't want to or dare not disobey Li Jing's order. Since Cao Wenzhao took refuge in Li Jing, Li Jing knew how much he valued Cao Wenzhao in his heart.Now Li Jing felt the affection of his teacher and asked him to send troops to relieve his teacher's regret. At this time, Cao Wenzhao disobeyed Li Jing's order, even if Li Jing gave the order in a moment of confusion, how would Cao Wenzhao face Li Jing in the future?
After pondering for a while, Cao Wenzhao said to his soldiers: "Order the whole army. Mr. Yuan and Mr. Xu have passed away. The commander-in-chief ordered the whole army to mourn. Immediately notify the troops to take down the military flags of all colors and replace them with white flags. wear mourning.

In addition, send people to spread the news to Jinzhou and Songshan, and order General Chen's troops, Zu Dashou's and Wu Sangui's troops to follow suit, and then send people to Datong and Guihua to inform Bianjiao and Ma Ke that they will be filial piety immediately.Also, have the quartermaster come to see me right away. "

The soldier took the order and hurriedly sent someone to pass the order.

After a while, the quartermaster hurried over.

Waving his hand to stop the quartermaster from saluting, Cao Wenzhao asked seriously, "How much grain is there in Shanhaiguan now?"

The quartermaster was taken aback when he heard that, thinking that Cao Wenzhao was going to investigate his private embezzlement of military rations, he hesitated, Cao Wenzhao shouted: "What are you thinking? Don't think I don't know what you are doing in private, now I don't know Time to investigate the shitty things you did, and immediately report the amount of food stored to me."

The quartermaster wiped the sweat from his forehead, and replied tremblingly: "General Qi, there are still four thousand shi of grain in Shanhaiguan, ah, no, it's four thousand five hundred shi."

Cao Wenzhao glared at the quartermaster, and snorted coldly: "You're smart, how much food does Songjin have in stock?"

The quartermaster hurriedly said: "Jinzhou allocated [-] shi of grain last time, and Songshan allocated [-] shi of grain, but it has been almost a month now, and it is estimated that the total of these two places together is less than [-] shi of grain. But There is no problem in sticking to the beginning of next month, and by the beginning of the month, the logistics department should also send food over."

Cao Wenzhao sighed silently when he heard this. The purpose of Cao Wenzhao asking about the military rations was to know how long the rations in the army could last. If they could persist for more than half a month, Cao Wenzhao was ready to follow Li Jing's order to attack the Eastern Captives.

But now there is less than ten days of food in the army, Cao Wenzhao absolutely dare not take this risk.Because as the army moves out, the consumption of food will also increase, and as the front line lengthens, the difficulty of supply will also increase.

Nearly 20 troops went out, how could Cao Wenzhao be careless.

Cao Wenzhao paced back and forth in the room for a few steps, waving his hands to signal the quartermaster to step back.When the quartermaster was about to go out, Cao Wenzhao said suddenly: "You know the character of our commander-in-chief. What he hates the most is being greedy for ink, especially for military resources. Although your actions are very small, as long as the commander-in-chief I know, beheading is inevitable, it is unwise to sacrifice your life for a hundred taels of silver, you are Master Shen's subordinates, I hope you will not embarrass Master Shen."

"Thank you, General, for your kindness. After I return from my humble post, I will return the intercepted food to the public." The quartermaster hurriedly said.

Cao Wenzhao waved his hand and ignored the quartermaster.

To be honest, Cao Wenzhao really wanted to take down the quartermaster directly, but Li Jing divided the army into three parts after the expansion of the army. The first part is the main battle force, that is, the main army, which belongs to the military chiefs of the major military regions. Jurisdiction.The second part is the supplementary troops, which are auxiliary troops and are under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.The third part is the logistics force, which is composed of main soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, and is under the jurisdiction of the logistics department.

According to the number of people in the military region, the logistics department regularly and quantitatively supplies the military region with supplies. Generally speaking, the supply is once a month. That is to say, the main combat troops can only last for one month without the support of the logistics department.

The supplies of the logistics department, such as daily supplies such as food and military uniforms, are provided by the localities, and the weapons and equipment are provided by the general equipment department. The logistics department only plays the role of receiving, transshipment and distribution.

In this way, the main battle force, the logistics department, the equipment department, and the local government will check and balance each other layer by layer, and no one can dominate.

Li Jing has only one purpose in doing this, which is to prevent the military generals from plotting against the law.

If someone wants to rebel, the logistics department will immediately cut off his logistics sources. At the same time, the Metropolitan Government has a supplementary force, which has sufficient troops to suppress the rebellion.

(End of this chapter)